This term I am teaching an iPhone Development course at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar, where I am working as an artistic staff member. The course is loosely based on the Stanford iTunesU course, but is slightly rearranged and instead of developing a couple of larger projects, the demos are more reduced and focus on the given task.Nearly all basic tasks are covered, beginning from an introduction in Objective-C …
Darina Alster & Michael Markert show a new collaborative work which will be exhibited in in Praha at the ENTRANCE Gallery (Karlin Studios, Krizikova 34, Praha 8) from April 1st: “Construction / Deconstruction of Language” Opening, 31.3.2010, 18h Exhibition: 1.4. – 25.4.2010 (Tue-Sun 12-18)www.entrancegallery.com Words are everywhere. Even this sheet of paper is filled …
See & edit iTunes ratings in the Macintosh status menu bar!
Okay, I admit, I love tidy playlists and try to keep my iTunes track ratings quite accurate, so that I can always enjoy my intelligent playlists. There has been a tool called iTunesRatings by Matthew Handley, which disappeared some years ago. Because I think this was a very nice application, I spent some hours programming my own app, …
The talking machine k2.0 is shown as part of the Exhibition “Assembling Bodies” at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology from March 2009 to March 2010.
Opening in March 2009, Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination aims to challenge pre-conceived notions about the human body. This innovative, multi-disciplinary exhibition examines ways that bodies are constructed, known and transformed in various historical, cross-cultural and disciplinary contexts. …
ACProcessorSuite is a suite of custom plugins for Apple’s Quartz Composer, a realtime visual programming environment that comes free with Mac OS X (Developer Tools). Now updated for Mac OS X 10.6. Snow Leopard! The main two plugins are – ACPlotter, an Oscillator-like line renderer, that plots a series of values over time – and ACSignalEnhancer that provides various smoothing and scaling algorithms to improve (for example) incoming …
From September 21st to 26th, I will be at the tweak festival in Limerick, Ireland. You can see the k2.1 talking machine, and I will have a talk at the fantastic this happened… series. Tweak is two! Currently in its second edition, Tweak is an interactive art and live electronic music festival taking place in Limerick City …
ACTimer is a small and probably quite useless Desktop Application for Mac OS X 10.5. or higher. It resides in the Menu Bar and has three different modes: the time (eg: DD hh:mm), a timer (eg: mm:ss) or a countdown (eg: mm:ss), which has an alarm (select your favorite system sound).
Additionally, it can display the time on a floating window on the desktop (“Always On Top” or “Desktop Icon Level”). The …
The talking machine k2.2 will be shown at the International Science | Technology | Art Festival and Conference Enter4 in Prague. Enter4 will take place from 18th to 25th April 2009 and is filled with a bunch of activities, exhibitions and performances from more than 80 participants from over 20 countries. k2.2 will be part of the Exhibition in the Dox Gallery, 22nd …
Am Freitag, den 17.04.2009 ab 20.30 Uhr bin ich zu Gast bei Christina Hänsel im artmix Gespräch auf Bayern 2:
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Zum Wahljahr 2009, in dem die unterschiedlichsten politischen Meinungen und Positionen in medialen Wettstreit treten, zeigt Michael Markert vom 14. März bis 26. April u.a. das interaktive kybernetische Rednerpult “Politican’s Speech“ (kIII) im KVN (Kunstverein Neuhausen / b. Stuttgart).
Ausgelöst durch Körperbewegung und Gestik kann dieses Pult eine computergenerierte Sprachausgabe erzeugen und deren Parameter in Echtzeit verändern. „Der zufällig, immer wieder neu generierte Text …
The talking machine k2.1 will be shown at Kinetica Art Fair 2009 in London! Carnivorous lampshades, pole dancing robots, man-animal-machine hybrids, mechanical writing machines, subliminal and sensitive installations, mesmerising light sculptures and cybernetics are just some of the incredible exhibits at Kinetica Art Fair, the UK’s first art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light and time-based art, that opens in London on Friday 27 February with …
The exhibition “Talking Machines” is launching Monday, the 24th November and is opened from November 25th to December 14th at the CIANT Gallery in the centre of Praha, Czech Republic.
The exhibition “Talking Machines” is part of the RESET-Festival.
On tuesday, the 25th December, 19:00 h will be an artist talk about the history and utopia of talking apparatus and transmission technologies along with a quick overview of my past …
[multilanguage entry] Ergebnisse meines Bauhaus-Seminars “Mobile Computing”: Mit der Verbreitung und Benutzung von Mobiltelefonen im Alltag verändert sich das menschliche Verhalten, die Geräte haben einen unübersehbaren Einfluss auf unsere Körperhaltung, sie verändern unsere Sprache und Kommunikationsstrategien, sind Bestandteil sozialer Netzwerk-Bildung. Sie dokumentieren unser Leben durch Audio- und Videoaufzeichnungen – und prägen damit die Gestaltung und Wahrnehmung unserer Realität. Die mit mobile.processing entstandenen Arbeiten untersuchen Aspekte der mobilen Telefonie und der Relevanz für …
Garment as shelter in public space – strategies for clothing and body: which is not primarily about a pure aesthetic design, but more about the analysis of bodily manifestations and postures, and about the development of an own artistic position. I will give a workshop about wearables the upcoming winter-term at the BAUHAUS-University Weimar. Image & Hoodie by Jörg Liebig We will work with …
Am Samstag, den 9.8.2008, wird von 15:05 bis 18:00 Uhr im WDR3 Radio ein umfassendes Radiofeature zum Thema Utopie ausgestrahlt, in dem ich mit drei Statements zu utopischen Maschinen, Sprache im politischen Raum und Utopieverlusten technischer Apparaturen beteiligt bin: Utopie & Dystopie – Wunschräume am Ende unseres Horizonts (von Mareike Maage und Moritz Fehr)
aus dem Pressetext:
“Aber wärest du mit mir in Utopien gewesen …
[multilanguage entry] The “Vorkurse” at the Bauhaus taught objective design roules and subjective intuition. Although this happened nearly 100 years ago, these roules are still valid: point, line, area, form, colour, contrast, dynamics, rhythm, gravity, fonts, patterns, symbols, signs…
[multilanguage entry] Die Vorkurse am Bauhaus lehrten objektivierbare Gestaltungsregeln und subjektive Intuition. Obwohl dies nun 100 Jahre her ist, gelten diese Grundlagen und ihre objektivierbaren Regeln weiter: Punkt, Linie, Fläche, Form, Farbe, Kontrast, Dynamik, Rhythmus, Schwerpunkt, …
